Galatians 2:11-16
Paul Opposes Peter
11 When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong. 12 Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. 13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
14 When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?
15 "We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners' 16 know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.
Christians can disagree on issues...Paul and Peter did...
St. Paul and St. Peter worked together to bring people closer to Jesus...The two did not always agree on how the Gentile converts should eat, behave, and live...St. Peter and the other disciples thought more in terms of the more traditional and cultural ways of the Jewish customs...St. Paul taught as St. Peter did also, that we are saved by God through Jesus Christ... St. Paul, however, did not think the Gentiles should be burdened by many of the Mosaic Laws, that were learned by St. Peter... Things such as eating certain foods and eating with Gentiles were not in the old Mosaic customs and traditions...St. Paul tried to assist St. Peter in changing and believing that our main concern is having faith in God and that Jesus died for our sins...
They disagreed on issues, but remained true to the faith in God and Jesus and continued to work together in the early church to bring all to God through Jesus...